Dio's WorkshopWelcome to my brain. It’s messy. It’s interesting. And it’s all connected if you stick around long enough. "Believe Nothing: no matter who said it, even if I have said it, except it agree with your own reason and common sense. Siddhartha Guatamo, the Buddha.
Friday eve,,, been a day, 1/2 day at the J.O.B. phone tag with Docs again since they called Da and he doesn’t ask questions if confused, just ‘ uhm’s’ “Ok”,,,, No word back, but supposedly a scheduling thing that requires us to know WHEN WHERE WHAT,,,
no grumps here,,,,
Been redneckin’ it on Bloo this eve.
Yoooz can see the flashylight’em up in the back ground, and see the direction,,, thats me workin’ on #2 and gettin’ close to wrap up. the black thingy on the rigght is my BT speaker,,, Jammin’ out on Death metal, poundin’ back a double duece of Alky=Haul and turning wrench,,,
Takes me right back to 1988 it do.
Other than the fact hta tthe music is provided by streaming online services through cellular tech,,,, Nothing much different, booze, wrenches, busted truck,
Only thing missin’ is Buddies to cheer my failures of droppin a valve or keeper,
BTW,,, THIS is for those not in the know. THIS is a keeper with a dime for comparison
Dinky liitle shit that makes worlds of difference in functional or not.
T’ain’t much to add to the fray today… Been to danged bizzy trying to earn my keep, chase doc opinions, and get Bloo that much closer to reality, AGAIN,,,,
At this point though,,, Seals are DONE. Found my culprit to: #7 intake was torn and floating. Shit was dumping straight into the intake there. I am certain the others were leaking as well. but #7 is just above the exhaust manifold and directly below the EGR tube from same. Its surrounded by heat, and both seals on that cylinder looked rougher than the rest. That being said though, they ALL looked wore out. so she SHOULD be in better shape now.
Plugs are back in, but the light was failing me, and I’m lit, so time to leave it the morrow and carry on, weather permitting. I’ll set the running valve lash when I’m more sober and have more light to work with.
IF, someone is calling your practice/business/company, they are ON THIER TIME trying to accomplish something. If you can’t take the call, there is this thing called VOICEMAIL, you might have heard of it a time or two. Back in the day, we called it an Aswering machined, or a answering service in some cases where the called was forwarded to such.
The ‘leave a name and number and we will get right back to you” crap,,,, Ok, sure, and you’ll call me when I am merging traffic at 70mph during rush hour, so I won’t answer the call (for safety’s sake) and here we go again, round and round the phone tag wheel we go.
Do I sound just a little jaded here?
dealing with doc offices and most all of them are now using automated directories, that don’t help much, and in one case, pounding on the zero key gets you hung up on.
Gonna stop and get me some lick-er on the way home from running images out to the new doc. At Her unit, you at least you get to talk to flesh and blood when you call in. That should say more about the dealers others in some way.
musical interlude while Dio does the runnin’ thingy,,,,,
Aaaannnndddddddd,,,,,,, I’m back
Hurry up n wait,,,, tha’s the word of the day. Kinda saw it comin’ but now its too late to do anything on BlooTwuck and not make a mistake or thirty: PASS!!!
So, lick-er up, a double finger draw with naproxin sodium chaser for the pains,,, My shoulders are achin’ from stress, diggers and spudbar use. Prolly in need of shoulder rebuild meself, but now is not the time. Don’t need both Da and myself on the “No Duty” list. One is bad enough. (and I could really use a good paddlin’ to help with the shoulder pain. Paddlin’ is my Physical Therapy that always works.)
For the love of Christ, someone PLEASE tell me, why The White House would be considering Armed Conflict with a state that is, QUITE IN FACT, in the middle of a Civil War with itself?
second thought, don’t answer that,,,
Its obvious that there needs to be some distraction away from the growing interest in information about WHOM the Baby-eatin’ pedophile Devil worshipping Fuck-Knobs are,, and that a-yup, IF that information were to become common knowledge, that DC, no longer the District of Criminals, but now the District of Cannibals, and their “Greatest Ally EVAH!” WANT, DESIRE EVEN MoarWar, must shed blood for their Diety of whatever name they place it under this eon,,,,
Because if they can’t keep the monkeys distracted, the GAME collapses,,,,,
Oh, where to start,,,, Been a mad, mad, mad, DAY,,, Not mad emotion, just sort of this side of total off the hook krazzeee,,,
Lots o runnin’
BUT, For a goodness for once. Talkin’ ta Da this weekend, he was discussing a ‘clinic’ that recently Re-vamped and GREW a town over (bout 14 miles away) and how they have been getting really good word from people he knows.
I looked, but weekend, not open, so well, nuthin much came about, EXCEPT the fact that “walk ins welcome”,,,, Roll the dice, buy the ticket, take the ride,,,,
Left Da’s at 10am,,, arrived there shortly after,,, Walked in, talked to receptionist, lobby not overly full, but BIZZY,,, thinking to self “great, we are gonna be here for HOURS,,,,”
filled out the paperwork side of things for Da, showed him where to sign, did the leg work of getting him checked in and before my arse made contact with the chair next to Da, they called him in.
DOC was Supernice, Nice looking (9 months pregnent and I envy her hubby,,, she’s a looker) VERY empathic to our needs, was horrified by the recent events so far, even got angry about it to some extent though not cussin’ mad, but carefully chosen wording describing “incompentent sheepskin holders”
Funny that, she is an honest to Dawg DOCTOR,, not an APRN or PA,,,
Da completely relaxed around her, was even cracking jokes a bit (his humor ain’t ded, but the pain makes it a little less afluent.)
Build a treatment strategy,,, DO carry forward with the second MRI (was today at 3) Don’t bother with the Rheumatologist as this isn’t showing signs of old Arthur (cancled that one) Hold the current other appointments, FOR NOW, as there may be further information from them concerning this recent MRI, Forward ALL imaging to her office (done!) and she wrote a scrip for a powerful but NOT NARCOTIC pain killer, to help aleviate this mess he has been in.
And Da and I returned back to his house by 11:15,,,, No appointment recall,,,, less than an hour and MORE forward movement in that hour and only 28 miles of driving versus the 6 appointments, 5 diffferent docs, 1000 miles of driving, and NO Plan for treatment of any sort.
I’m TICKLED PINK right now. But the logistics of all the running (as we still had to get him to the MRI at 3,) messed up me head a bit.
Had some time to kill before the run to the RILLY BIG MAGNETS,,, so, piddle on Bloo for a minute. Started by stuffing the cylinder with rope (#7) and pulled the rocker arm, and
BRAIN FART!!! I’m looking down at the new valve seals and totally flummoxed myself thinking “I forgot to put one on somewhere,,,,” (I’m looking at 4 seals in the bag) F!F! F! F! fFFFFFfffff!!!!! Run in the house, grab the borescope and start eyeballing things,,, “Nope! new seal, new seal, new seal, new seal,,,,,,,,”
And then the math hit me,,,, Two cylinders remaning, two valves each, FOUR SEALS,,,,
Fuggit,,If’n I’m that scatterbrained that I made ‘bad maff’ anxiety hit,,,Mehbe, I just need to leave the wrenches alone for the day,,,, Better than messin’ sumpin up: like dropping another keeper!?!?! Though I have access to good ones, I DID intend on using that donor block at some point. even if only to power a genset of something. (High milage, but ran great before I went to rippin’ her apart.)
So, Bloo sat,,, run to the MRI an hour or so later and that was another ‘in n out’. I think I sat longer waiting for the receptionist to make a disc of the recent images for us. (she also forwarded the files to the Neurosurgeon for assessment.)
Now we wait for word,,, Three places,,, someone is gonna have something to say,,,, Roll the dice, buy the ticket, take the ride.
Time to wake up if ya haven’t felt that burn yet. Its not so bad here in Appalachia, but Was HORRID when I went back to my hometown a couple three year back. I’d imagine it’s grown worse since, as we are seeing Diversity rear its head ’round here too.
And no, I have no problems with skin tones, I DO have a problem with intergration resistence, and many of the current ‘immigre’ are HIGHLY resistant to intergration to “Murhican”
Sad to say, I know more than a few ‘muricans’ that don’t fit that description. Especially that “I do not wish to be a kept citizen” aspect,,,, Too many live on that check from Ungle Sugar at far too early an age, and never Get off of it. They “barter that incentive for a dole’ and then bitch when the state wants to control every aspect of thier lives.
I don’t pity them when the bitchin’ starts: I just point out that they let that particular camel into the tent, now its time to live with it.
ANNNDDDDDDDDDD,,,,,,,,,
on other fronts, a HUGE thankyou goes out to Mike in FLA for another Donation to the Blog/shop. Brother, you are being incredibly generous to this not so destitute grump, and its HIGHLY appreciated. Please, do not put yourself in a predicament on my account, but thank you and it IS appreciated!!!! (and if any others are feeling generous in their own way, the TIP JAR link for ya. I wont’ give ya any crap, but will publicly thank you unless told otherwise!!!)
And oh Yeah,,, Jesse Jackson died,,,,
I’ll just leave that right there for your inspection,,,,
#5 is DONE! both valves resealed. Those keepers from Donor truck worked teats! (still have #7 and #2 yet to do. No rush,,,,)
“Chasin’ Docs with Da” day,, won’t have much to add,
maybe
maybe a lot to add and vent and get off me chest some more frustrations,,, Maybe,,,
or not,,, will see. Hopin’ to turn this ‘run-around’ into “treatments”
Something in the world I have been seeing more of lately. “coming to God moments” BCE is having one too. Look up at my pages and you will see I had one as well.
I don’t want anyone to think I am Anti-Christian, or something,,, all I want is the same thing I have always wanted in every aspect of my existence: TRUTH. And I feel that so many aspects of our ‘organized religions’ are NOT TRUTH, but digressions from the truth to favor a select few. In one case in particular, its become quite obvious that the ‘word’ was heavily manipulated and edited, and created MORE strife than it solved.
And yes, I do believe that the Muslim world is the thirteenth tribe of Israel,,,, Proof in the first chapters of the Qu’ran,,, Check it out if you don’t believe me (if you think about it, the Abraham Accords admit this as well.)
Anywhoosits,,, I gotta get some running around done, and HOPEFULLY get some treatments started on Da,, His attitude about all of this stuff in his personal world is downturning in bad ways: kinda startin’ to scare us kids a little (understatement!!!!)
Dropped a keeper!!! ARGGGHHHHH!!!! And of course, it hit the tarp and went-a-buhbye!! Probably in EREHWON now,,,
Cheap part, has to order it no matter which route I go, but still cheap ($3/pair so not THAT cheap considering what they are)
OR,,, I can pull a valve cover on Donor truck and pull a pair from her,,, Same part number on all SBC’s/4.3’s as I checked that last night,,,,
STILL,,, GRRRRRR mad at myself,,, I had it in hand and it dropped through the frame to the ground, even heard it hit plastic, but can’t find it for nuthin! (for those unfamiliar, this peice is about the size of a fingernail. TINY!)
On that note,,, Its the exhaust port #5 that I’m working on. only have 5, 7, and 2 remaining. BUT I STOPPED ALL FORWARD MOVEMENT when that thing fell. Not moving until I can put that particular valve back together.
and its back to the mines today,,, Doc runs tomorrow with Da, and likely no movement at all on Bloo in the interim. I kinda want the ground to dry out a bit too. it was getting rather goopy with my movements trying to find that keeper,,, (and that keeper may be encased in that goop now,,, dunno,,,) (note, I did use a rather large magnet as well: found a few nuts and a bolt that had fallen off Buffalo when I worked on her in this location prior, but not that keeper, YET.)
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